Scientists knew that sliding along surfaces gives water drops a charge. Those droplets can damage bridges, cars and more over ...

A hexagon darkens the clouds over Saturn’s north pole. Now, astronomers have found a similarly shaped atmospheric wave at the ...

The biggest fibromyalgia genetics study yet zeroed in on 26 genetic risk factors for the pain disorder, including one in the ...

The universe’s first rocky planets may have gotten their start astonishingly early — perhaps only 100 million years after the ...

Many people struggle to sleep enough at night. Surprisingly, science cannot say if adding in a nap to sleep in two blocks is ...

Migraine prevention drugs are more targeted than ever before, and new guidelines may help doctors predict which will work for ...

NASA’s new Nancy Grace Roman space telescope will tackle nearly every aspect of astrophysics, including dark matter, dark ...

California blackworms can squeeze through narrow channels faster than they can wriggle across wide ones, a finding that may ...

Three species preferred different people based on their skin odor and bacteria. The findings could help make new ...

Rubidium atoms on China’s Tiangong space station fell with the same acceleration, upholding a cornerstone of Einstein’s ...

Landslides in the United States cause billions of dollars of damage and can take dozens of lives each year. In Appalachia, a hotspot of landslides, that hazard is exacerbated by poverty, new research ...

Insects are famous for their six-legged body plan, but that wasn’t always the rule. A 324-million-year-old fossil dug up from a shale bed in West Texas had a markedly different setup, sporting a ...